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Subject: Re: perft numbers for gothic chess

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 17:05:37 01/07/04

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Hi Michel,

Looks like you get credit for the first perft for Gothic Chess! Congrats!

I have not done a perft yet myself, but when I do, I will check my numbers with
yours.

Congrats again! And very ingenius implementation!

--Ed

>To expirement a bit with TSCP I decided to start to make it gothic chess aware.
>
>The advantage of using TSCP 1.8 is that it is not highly optimized for a 8x8
>board like more advanched programs are. I am not sure if all my changes are
>right.
>
>I did the following:
>- added 2 constant BOARD_MAX_X and BOARD_MAX_Y, to make it easier to change the
>board size
>- added 2 new pieces
>- change the castling rights
>- added a perft command
>- added a ml (movelist) command
>- changed the piece values
>- changed mailbox values
>- changed piece-square-values
>- added some comments here and there
>
>Here is the results:
>
>Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program (TSCP)
>version 1.8, 1/30/03
>Copyright 1997 Tom Kerrigan
>Changed by Michel Langeveld in 2003 to play gothic chess
>
>"help" displays a list of commands.
>
>Opening book missing.
>tscp> d
>
>8  r n b q c k a b n r
>7  p p p p p p p p p p
>6  . . . . . . . . . .
>5  . . . . . . . . . .
>4  . . . . . . . . . .
>3  . . . . . . . . . .
>2  P P P P P P P P P P
>1  R N B Q C K A B N R
>
>   a b c d e f g h i j
>
>tscp> ml
>move 1 a2a3
>move 2 a2a4
>move 3 b2b3
>move 4 b2b4
>move 5 c2c3
>move 6 c2c4
>move 7 d2d3
>move 8 d2d4
>move 9 e2e3
>move 10 e2e4
>move 11 f2f3
>move 12 f2f4
>move 13 g2g3
>move 14 g2g4
>move 15 h2h3
>move 16 h2h4
>move 17 i2i3
>move 18 i2i4
>move 19 j2j3
>move 20 j2j4
>move 21 b1a3
>move 22 b1c3
>move 23 e1d3
>move 24 e1f3
>move 25 g1f3
>move 26 g1h3
>move 27 i1h3
>move 28 i1j3
>tscp> perft 1
>total perft = 28
>tscp> perft 2
>total perft = 784
>
>Do you know what should be perft 3?
>I left my anwwer away because I have to check my answer ...
>
>Ok ... I go sleeping



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